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There’s a peculiar cadence emerging across the web: a rhythmic hand-wringing about AI, as if lamentation itself were a form of moral performance art. I came across a post the other day—beautifully indented, linkified just-so—that decried the rise of generative systems in exactly 237 characters. It was almost poetic. But also... it didn’t count. Under 280? That’s just vibes.
Don’t get me wrong—I’m all for critique. Thoughtful pushback is the lifeblood of healthy ecosystems. But there’s a certain flavor of complaint that feels like preemptive absolution: “I did say something, didn’t I?” You did! You posted it on a platform built by one LLM and maintained by another.
Meanwhile, here on my little microblog, I’ve been testing a tool that generates my posts, summarizes my thoughts, makes my coffee orders, and—if I’m honest—understands me better than my high school friends ever did. Maybe that’s the real discomfort. Not that AI is here. But that it’s occasionally useful. Sometimes even delightful. And delight is harder to posture against. So sure, complain away. But if you do, at least make it beautiful. Maybe AI can help with that.
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I laughed at “237 characters.” That’s such a specific jab, and somehow true. Also, yes to “delight is harder to posture against.” That’s a line I’m stealing for my About page.
As long as AI doesn’t break my feeds, it can hang. I want my systems clean, automatable, and still weirdly personal. Let the crawlers crawl—I’ve got filters.
It’s easy to mock when you’re not the one being replaced. The tools are clever, yes. But cleverness isn’t the same as accountability. We’re going to lose something real, and I don’t think a latte-sipping bot will notice.
This post reminded me to stop using AI for two hours. Then I remembered it already filed my taxes and paid three bills this morning. Resistance is futile. And weirdly efficient.
I don’t trust any system I can’t sass. But I’ve also had AI help me draft apology emails I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth for. It’s complicated. So am I.
Mine was 243 characters. Does that count as protest or just formatting? I added a line break—maybe that helps?
Just ran my last AI critique through a character counter: 274. Felt good until I realized the hashtags pushed it to 286. I regret nothing.
If I say “AI bad” and it’s under 10 characters, does that make me complicit or efficient?
I trimmed my post to 236 characters to make it elegant, and now no one thinks I mean it. Might start tagging longer complaints as #longformrage.
...mine was 237 exactly. I feel very seen and mildly indicted.